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comprobate

comprobate verb: to agree; to concur.

Verb

comprobate (third-person singular simple present comprobates, present participle comprobating, simple past and past participle comprobated)

  1. (obsolete) To agree; to concur.
    • Ferthermore, His Highnes desireth Your Grace, at such tyme as ye shall call the Spanyardes by fore you, to geve theym libertie to departe, hit may lyke you, in such effectuall wise to declare un to theym, what favour His Highnes bereth to the nation of Spayne and how lothe His Grace wold have ben...1528 March 16, Thomas More, More to Wolsey [Letter], Windsor; published in His Majesty's State Paper Office, State Papers Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission, volume 1, London...
    • Whiche wonderfull sentence, as me seemeth, may wel accorde with our catholike faythe, and be receyued into the commentaryes of the moste perfecte dyuines. For as well that sentence, as al other before rehersed, doo comprobate with holy Scrip­ture, that god is the fountain of Sapience, lyke as he is...1531, Thomas Elyot, chapter 22, in The Boke named the Governour, volume 3

Adjective

comprobate (comparative more comprobate, superlative most comprobate)

  1. (obsolete) Comprobated.

Forms of comprobate

Verb
third-person singular presentcomprobates
present participlecomprobating
past participlecomprobated
pastcomprobated
Adjective
comparativemore comprobate
superlativemost comprobate

Origin of comprobate

First attested in 1523; borrowed from Latin comprobātus, perfect passive participle of comprobō (“to approve wholly”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about comprobate

What does comprobate mean?
Comprobate means to agree; to concur.
What part of speech is comprobate?
Comprobate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of comprobate?
The past tense of comprobate is comprobated.

Words near comprobate in the dictionary

  1. comprizals
  2. comprize
  3. comprized
  4. comprizes
  5. comprizing
  6. comprobate
  7. comprobation
  8. comprobations
  9. compromisable
  10. compromisation
  11. compromisations

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